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Sometimes, it&#8217;s hard to imagine a product or industry that a new e-commerce startup hasn&#8217;t tried to remake already, from slippers to mattresses, from luggage to lipstick. Yet two childhood friends in New York have seemingly struck on a fresh idea: taking on the stodgy and often expensive world of cookware, where one&#8217;s options out of college are usually limited to [&#8230;]

Crypto news got a little boost last week after a dark month of crashes, stablecoins and birthdays. The SEC ruled that two ICO issuers, CarrierEQ Inc. and Paragon Coin Inc., were in fact selling securities instead of so-called utility tokens. &#8220;Both companies have agreed to return funds to harmed investors, register the tokens as securities, [&#8230;]

Back in September, Microsoft announced a virtual desktop solution that lets customers run Office 365 and Windows 10 in the cloud. They mentioned several partners in the announcement that were working on solutions with them. One of those was FSLogix, a Georgia virtual desktop startup. Today, Microsoft announced it has acquired FSLogix. It did not [&#8230;]

Five years and 60 potential locations later, NASA has chosen the Jezero Crater as the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover mission. Slated to launch in July, the Mars 2020 rover mission will touch down at the Jezero Crater as NASA&#8217;s exploration of the Red Planet enters its next phase. The rover will be looking for [&#8230;]

Inboard, the startup that sells a range of electric scooters and skateboards, has just opened sales of its first premium scooter &#8212; just in time for the holiday season. The company has already sold 285 of the scooters in a private pre-sale, with 80 percent of the orders coming from the United States and 35 [&#8230;]

Instagram is fighting back against automated apps people use to leave spammy comments or follow then unfollow others in hopes of growing their audience. Today Instagram is removing from people&#8217;s accounts who use these apps inauthentic follows, Likes and comments that violate its policies; sending them a warning to change their password to cut ties [&#8230;]

In the next step on its path to getting its low earth orbit payload launch system up and running, Virgin Orbit successfully took its LauncherOne system out for a spin with an actual rocket attached under its wing. The company&#8217;s specially modified 747-400 carried a 70-foot-long rocket as part of a test flight proving that [&#8230;]

BuzzFeed News is giving readers a new way to support its journalism — by paying a monthly or yearly fee. BuzzFeed might not seem like the most obvious publication to ask readers for financial support, as it doesn&#8217;t really have the high-minded appeal of (say) NPR or The New Yorker. However, the company has been [&#8230;]